bad metric

[Christina Thiele]

Edgar G. Goodaire writes:
>
> Dear Friends:
> I have recently switched to MiKTeX from EmTeX.  I have your lucida fonts,
> but now get an error message concerning hlcrima.tfm - bad metric - and no
> output.  Everything worked with EmTeX.  Can you figure out what is going
> wrong?  My .aux file is below.  Many thanks ...........Edgar
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.3) (preloaded format=latex
> 2000.11.28)  25 SEP 2003 15:03
> **a4.tex
> (a4.tex
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> ...
>
>  (C:\texmf\tex\latex\lucidabr\omlhlcm.fd
> File: omlhlcm.fd 1997/09/07 v4.2 Lucida New Math Italic (SPQR/DPC)
> )
> LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `OML/hlcm/m/it' will be
> (Font)              scaled to size 10.29301pt on input line 40.
>
> ! Font OML/hlcm/m/it/10.95=hlcrima at 10.29301pt not loadable: Bad metric
> (TFM)
>  file.
> <to be read again>
>                    relax
> l.40 \par (a) $\biggl
>                      \{\tvec{1\\4\\7}, \tvec{2\\5\\8}, \tvec{3\\6\\9}\biggr
> \...
>
> ?
> LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `OML/hlcm/m/it' will be
> (Font)              scaled to size 7.76001pt on input line 40.
> ! Font OML/hlcm/m/it/8=hlcrima at 7.76001pt not loadable: Bad metric (TFM)
> file
> .
> <to be read again>
>                    relax
> l.40 \par (a) $\biggl
>                      \{\tvec{1\\4\\7}, \tvec{2\\5\\8}, \tvec{3\\6\\9}\biggr
> \...
>
> ? x
>
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>  1985 strings out of 96052
>  22049 string characters out of 1197190
>  62481 words of memory out of 1066683
>  4886 multiletter control sequences out of 35000
>  6482 words of font info for 20 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000
>  15 hyphenation exceptions out of 607
>  27i,3n,43p,429b,206s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s
> No pages of output.
>
>
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>



I believe that TFM files are specifically written for a given
encoding. So that if you were using one encoding under MikTeX and
another under EmTeX, you'd have to re-write -- or redirect via paths
-- to the correct tfms. Is this a possibility?

What I definitely don't know is whether tfm files written for use with
one TeX implementation are directly usable in another.

Ch.